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This
book is a memoir, a remembering of times past. Names, characters,
places, and incidents are as remembered by the author.

“The Red Flyer”

I
was, as I know now, a precocious child. It’s a wonder my mother
survived.

My
first memories were at the Sarter House in Yreka, California.

Old
houses there were named after the families that built them. In a way
it was really nice, because somehow they never died. A brass plate on
the house now says, The Sarter House. Eighty-one years ago, Yreka
ended or began there on Gold Street.